New Albany Links Golf Club

Barry Serafin, a former associate of prolific Ohio architects Jack Kidwell and Michael Hurdzan, designed New Albany Links Golf Club, which opened in 2000 on ecologically-sensitive terrain in New Albany, Ohio. Serafin's design philosophy explicitly focused on exposing and enhancing the inherent features of the land rather than imposing a target-golf routing on top of the natural topography. 7,004 yards par-72, course rating 73.3, slope 137 from the championship tees. Golf Digest named New Albany Links one of its Top-10 Best New Affordable Public Golf Courses for 2001, and it has since been included in GolfStyle Ohio's '100 Must-Play Courses of Ohio' and Golf Digest's 'Best Places to Play' lists. Peak green fee runs $55-85 depending on season. Fits a Columbus trip as the links-style architectural alternative alongside OSU Scarlet/Gray (MacKenzie) and Longaberger/Virtues (Arthur Hills) for a broader Columbus-area itinerary.